Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-02-24
NEWS So ummAnY.
five Men Killed by the Failing of q
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grant - 10 Sold shot ana Kiiied

Five Men Killed by the Failing of ,
scahoid-A Ghastiy Burden-A Va
grant - 10 Sold shot and Killed.
At Beilefonte, PenIa., OF .uesdax
morning, while twei ve biicx las crs wer,
liz ing . stack at Valentines furnaces
a scafold on which they stood sav,
way, precipitating them to the bottom
Of the stack, 65 feet below. Five OF ,hs
men were killed and two fatally ipjur
ed, the rest escaping with sliRhter in.
Juries. Allthe killed were from Pitrs
burg and unmarried.
The senseless body Of o man was yes
terday morning found on the pilot OF an
engine on the Fort Wa. ne road which
arrived Ut Pittsburg ct midnight. Hs
dieo At neon yesterday. Word was re-
cetved In the afternoon frcm Beaver
Falls OF the finding Of two dead bodies
OF men Who had apparently been struck
ana killed by the same trait.
In Augusta, Kentucky, on Tuesd ay,
Henry Dodson, oop victed by q Jury OF
being vagrant, was sentenced by the
verdict "to be sold to the highest hidde
at public auction for the period OF
iseventy-fve days" Judge Bradford
before whom the case was tried, has
fixed March 9th as the date Of sale.
John MCGUIRE shot and killed Samuel
McGIegor In quarrel In St. Louis on
Tuesday night. There had been III
feeling between them since the La Olsde
Gas Works strike last summer. Mo.
Oregon then remained at bis post when
Mcclure and the other employ es struck.
The First Com mptroller Of the Treasury
decides that "there is no law under
which o duplicate bond can be issued
to resident OF Chicago, who recent ly
swallowed $1,000 coupon bond in order,
~ he said, TO prevent Its falling into the
hands OF burglars"
The postotfice in Cambridge, Mary.
land, was robbed on Tuesday night OF
$3.50 In c.sh, stamps and registered
packages. The noise caused by the
blowing open OF the safe was heard In
the neighborhood, but no notice was
taken of 1t.
b. j. Kicking, boarding house
keeper 10 Cincinnati, was shot dead by
Henry Merseman on Tuesday night.
Merseman, who was drunk, wapted to
see his brother, who was asleep in tho
house, and Kicking refused 10 awake
the sleeping man.
Attorney General Garland has given
An opinion to the Treasury Deg partment
"that the Chinese Restriction Act does
not apply 10 Chinese women who &C.
company other migrants to this coun
try In the capacity OF nurses or ser.
wants."
John Mitchell, notorious "crook, +"
" as arrested in Pittsburg on Tuesday
might. on a telegram from Cleveland. II
Ia believed he was implicated in the
great fur robbery and the rescue Mt
Ravenna.
Three daughters in 8 family named
Baldwin, near Rochester, New York,
have just died of trichinosis, the result
OF eating raw ham some time ago.
George Bancroft, the historian, has
been conhued to his bed with q severe
cold for several days, bat IL reported &c
be rapidly recovering.
A heavy storm of sieet and snow Sci
In on Wednesday morning at Lynch
burg, Virginia. The adjacent noun
tains ore covered with deep snow.
Secretary Manning resumed his du
ties ut the Treasury Department OF
Wednesday morning.
The opinion OF an old and we'll knowf
merchant Is given In n few words, viz
"I think DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup Is tn,
| best med icine that Ia maze"
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